Dunedin Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Dunedin

The FBI lists Dunedin with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Dunedin Police Department. It reported 499 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.

Outside the city, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 7,021 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Pinellas County: the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Pinellas County, the Department of Insurance in Pinellas County, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco in Pinellas County, the Pinellas County Florida Game Commission and two more (state agency); St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport (other); the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg (campus police); the Highway Patrol in Pinellas County (state police).

How Many Arrests Dunedin Reports

The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.

• Dunedin: 499 for 2025, 582 for 2024, 622 for 2023, 701 for 2022 and 618 for 2021.

Dunedin's 499 arrests in 2025 were down 14 percent from 582 in 2024.

Through September 2026, Dunedin reported 355 arrests, against 381 in the same months of 2025.

Across Pinellas County, the 19 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 16,944 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Dunedin Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Dunedin and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.

So far in 2026 the jail has held about 2,950 people on an average day, down from about 3,010 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 2,915 beds, and it ran at 99 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office at whosinjail.pinellassheriff.gov (page title: WhosInJailWebSite), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.

A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Florida Department of Corrections lists its inmates at fdc.myflorida.com.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Dunedin

For Dunedin the place to look is the case index of the Pinellas County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courtrecords.mypinellasclerk.gov).

Florida is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24 a search, through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.

Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Dunedin

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the agency must answer promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the copy fees set by statute, plus a special service charge for large requests.

• An arrest by the Dunedin police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at dunedin.gov/Home/Site-Footer/Footer-Widgets/Quick-Links/Public-Reco... (page title: Public Records Requests | City of Dunedin, FL), 737 Louden Avenue Dunedin, FL 34698, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Pinellas County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courtrecords.mypinellasclerk.gov.
• Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

The Pinellas County guide covers every agency in the county: Pinellas County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Dunedin each year?

Dunedin reported 499 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dunedin?

Ask the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at whosinjail.pinellassheriff.gov.

Where are people arrested in Dunedin booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Dunedin?

The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119).

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Dunedin?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Dunedin police for its own arrests, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the answer is due promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days.

Is this the official Dunedin website?

No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.